What Counterjihadists do Saturday Nights in Santa Monica

Most
folks chill out on Saturday nights; shopping at malls, dining out, or
catching a movie at a multiplex. That is most folks. A group calling
itself Counter Jihadists Coalition of Southern California spend Saturday
nights at a booth in the busy Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica
engaging in what I call anti-Da'wah — countering the call to Islam.

They
endeavor to get the word out about what is inside the Qur'an, the
Hadith, Mohammed's exemplary bio, and the ever-reliable guide to Islamic
doctrine and Sharia, The Reliance of the Traveller. They number among their group some members of the West Coast branch of The United West.
They even have a Coptic Christian member who can translate Arabic
spoken by Muslim passersby who either walk by muttering or engage the
doughty band.

Last Saturday evening marked the culmination of
Ramadan with the Feast of Eid al-Fitr. So the group set up their booth
laden with pamphlets and related materials elucidating the totalitarian
creed that lies within the Islamic doctrine — a creed that denigrates
all unbelievers and denies civil and human rights for women, those who
leave Islam by choice, gays, and, of course, The People of the Book
(Christians and Jews).

As Ramadan had ended the group prepared a
poster from a recent score card of violence that occurred in the Ummah
and elsewhere during Ramadan that they downloaded from the Religion of Peace website, The Ramadan Bombathon Scorecard for 2013. The Religion of Peace website notes:

TheReligionofPeace.com
has been reporting on the number of people killed and injured in the
name of religion throughout the month of Ramadan, which just ended. Here
are the totals for 2013. All but one were carried out by Muslims, and
that one didn’t result in any deaths or injuries.

Tell your Muslim friends you are happy Ramadan is over along with the yearly spike in Islamic terror attacks around the world.

What follows is a report from one of the leaders of the Counter Jihad Coalition, Steve Amundson:

Scenes from a Saturday Night at a Pedestrian Mall in Santa Monica

The
Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, CA, is one of the busiest
pedestrian malls in Southern California. Hundreds of tourists and locals
stroll the mall to shop, watch the street performers, and to take in
the ethnic and cultural variety that makes Santa Monica so vibrant.

A
group of activists called the Counter Jihad Coalition is also there to
inform the public about the many ways Islamic ideology threatens the
American way of life. We are armed only with a collection of illustrated
brochures addressing as poignantly as possible the major concerns about
Islamic ideology. Here is a list of some of the most popular brochures:

Are
you a Muslim Born in a Foreign Country? (Containing challenging
questions for Muslims who have never experienced freedom of speech and
thought)

Women who marry into Islam may have to abandon all rights

An African-American Muslim is a Slave to a Racist Ideology

Is it “Un-Christian” to speak out about Islam?

There is no excuse for domestic violence, except Islamic Sharia Law

We
attract visitors to our information table by posting large graphic
signs about recent Islamic outrages — like the Boston Marathon bombing
or the daylight beheading of Lee Rigby by Quran-quoting terrorists. Last
Saturday, we used a 3’ by 4’ blow-up of the 2013 Ramadan Bombathon
Scorecard published by www.thereligionofpeace.com.

This
poster with the smiling jihadi holding an automatic got lots of
attention. Passersby were signing up for the local American Congress for
Truth (ACT), complementing us for speaking out, and (Muslims, of
course) complaining how we have misunderstood their ideology. Having an
Arabic-speaking Copt Christian and a woman on our team went a long way
to diffusing the usual red-herrings dragged across our message.

As we engage the public, we are learning a number of things that other anti-Islamic activists must take into consideration:

1)
Most non-Muslims are woefully uninformed about Islam to the point that
many could not determine if we were for or against Islam.

2) CAIR
and other Islamist propaganda organizations have been relatively
successful in convincing American non-Muslims that Islam is a “religion”
protected by the First Amendment instead of a political ideology
operating under the cover of religious protection.

3) Muslims are
terrified at even touching anti-Islamic fact sheets or looking at
selected verses of the Quran in English translations provided by mosques
and other Muslim sources.

4) Muslims are obsessed with displaying
their Islamic “gang symbols” in public to show that “we are here and you
have to accept us.”